Yury Vadimov

Yury Vadimov (1940-) was President of Russia from 2000.

Biography
Yury Vadimov was born in Krasnogorsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1940, and he worked as an economist during the Perestroika era. During the 1990s, he became involved in politics with the conservative United Russia members, and he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2000 as party leader before winning the presidential election with 50.6% of the vote to LDPR leader Valentina Mogusheva's 49.4%.